NEW YORK -
The No. 46 Columbia women's tennis team won its third consecutive match by a
6-1 score Saturday, taking down the visiting Stony Brook Seawolves at the Dick
Savitt Tennis Center. The Lions won the doubles point and five of the singles
matches in the victory.

Senior
Nicole Bartnik and sophomore Crystal Leung got things started for Columbia,
racing away with an 8-1 win in the No. 3 doubles match over Nini Lagvilana and
Cassandra Dix. Columbia's top doubles tandem, the 29th-ranked team of Bianca
Sanon and Kanika Vaidya secured the doubles point for the Lions with an 8-3
downing of Polina Movchan and Jackie Altonsarna. In the No. 2 match, Katarina
Kovacevic and Tiana Takenaga were leading 6-2 when the match was stopped.

Takenaga
used the momentum from her unfinished match to dominate her singles contest.
Playing across from Louise Badoche, the Columbia junior posted a 6-0, 6-1
victory to give Columbia a 2-0 advantage. First-year Vaidya similarly recorded
a 6-0 blanking in the opening set of the No. 3 match before taking out
Altonsarna with a 6-3 second set.

Leung
locked up the win for Columbia with a straight-set victory in the No. 4 match.
Becky Shtilkind challenged Leung in the first set, but succumbed by a score of
6-4 and then went down in the second set, 6-1. Sanon added a fifth point to the
Lions' tally with a 6-4, 6-3 showing in the No. 2 match over Movchan.

Stony
Brook notched its lone point in the top singles match, with Lagvilava winning a
tough three-set match. Kovacevic put the final touches on the 6-1 win for
Columbia with a victory in the No. 6 singles match. After splitting the first
two sets with Dix, Kovacevic registered a 10-3 win in the tiebreaker.

Columbia
will return to the Dick Savitt Tennis Center next Friday, March 8, when it
hosts Fordham at 3 p.m.